Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trains & Tractors. One of the first tasks of German engineers was to repair and restore highways and bridges, to convert railways as far as the Dnieper to the narrower European gauge. Restoration of reconquered railways is bound to be a major problem for the Russians...
...enjoys as much Congressional confidence as any other U.S. military figure, apparently made a good job of it. After a two-hour secret session, members of the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees told newsmen that many a doubter of the Army's program was now a convert...
Adolf Hitler's retreat to elastic defenses may have been too late for anything less than the complete failure of his Russian campaign. If so, his only hope is to withdraw to the Reich and convert it (and Western Europe) into an impregnable fortress (TIME, Feb. 8). But that remained to be proved. What had been proved was that the Red Army was giving his Wehrmacht no rest or resting place...
...Last week the Brooklyn plant of Fanny Farmer Candy Shops was told to convert to coal. The plant now uses two boilers fired by oil, will have to run at least one while converting. The hitch: it must get an OPA permit for enough oil to run one boiler for 60 days...
...import divisions of most U.S. distillers with a crack sales and distributing setup but nothing to do. So the distillers began switching to domestic wines, bought wineries outright because it was far cheaper than starting from scratch. Then last August WPB stopped all whiskey production, ordered the distillers to convert to war alcohol (TIME, Sept. 14). The distillers looked over their whiskey stocks, discovered they had 480,000,000 bbl., enough to last only two years unless the U.S. stops drinking so fast and hoarding so much. If the war lasts that long it would mean no whiskey to sell...